2016–17 Bahrain First Division League

The 2016–17 Bahraini First Division League was the 60th top-level football season in Bahrain. Ten teams participated with Al-Hidd as the defending champions after securing the championship last season for the first time.^[1]

Bahrain First Division League

Season	2016–17
Champions	Malkiya (1st title)
Relegated	Bahrain SC Al Hala
AFC Champions League	Malkiya
AFC Cup	Manama
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

Malkiya won the title for the first time.^[2][3]

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	AFC Player	Former Players
Al-Ahli	Mehmed Alispahić	Cleiton Mineiro	Mohamed Lamine	Sidney Schmeltz	Komi-Fovi Aguidi
Al-Hala	Diego Silva						Alexandre Matão Daniel Tagoe
Al-Hidd	Moussa Narry	Ifedayo Olusegun	Orok Akarandut	Uche Agba	Ales Petrovacki	Mohammad Al-Dawud
Al-Muharraq	Felipinho	Doris Fuakumputu	Gregory Nelson	Ahmad Deeb		Ahmed Al-Khamri	Vítor Saba Mahmoud Al-Mawas
Al-Najma	Aílton	Edílson	Evans Frimpong	Édgar Pacheco
Al-Riffa	Danilo Bueno	Víctor Montaño	Abdoulaye Coulibaly	Onuoha Ogbonna	Oussema Boughanmi	Azamat Baymatov
Bahrain Club	Cristian Toncheff	Bruno Araújo	Vítor Huvos			Hadi Al Masri
East Riffa	João Luiz	Mladen Jovancic	Khaled Hmani			Mudir Al-Radaei
Malkiya	Gege Soriola	Israa Hamwiah				Nawaf Abdullah
Manama	Everton	Lázaro	Thiago Augusto			Lee Won-jae

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Malkiya (C)	18	9	6	3	24	16	+8	33	Qualification to the 2018 AFC Champions League preliminary round 1
2	Al-Riffa	18	9	4	5	32	16	+16	31
3	Al Hidd	18	9	4	5	27	23	+4	31
4	Manama Club	18	9	3	6	29	19	+10	30	Qualification to the 2018 AFC Cup group stage[a]
5	Al-Muharraq	18	8	5	5	30	23	+7	29
6	East Riffa	18	6	4	8	23	25	−2	22
7	Al-Ahli	18	5	5	8	16	24	−8	20
8	Al-Najma SC	18	3	8	7	20	32	−12	17
9	Bahrain (R)	18	3	7	8	18	27	−9	16	Relegation to the 2017–18 Bahraini Second Division
10	Al Hala (R)	18	2	8	8	11	25	−14	14

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Manama Club qualified for 2018 AFC Cup Group Stage as winners of 2016–17 Bahraini King's Cup.